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Late in 1937, Broadway Producer Jed Harris hired Martha to play Emily in Thornton Wilder's Our Town. Two years later she was hired for the screen version of Our Town, moved directly from that to The Howards, ended up earning $500 a week. Martha once occupied a small Manhattan apartment with four other girls who selected their guests according to "the length of cigaret butts they would leave." She now lives in a small house with a pint-sized swimming pool in Beverly Hills, employs a man & wife to run her household, drives her Buick convertible coupe herself...
Structurally it resembles Thornton Wilder's Bridge of San Luis Rey, opening with a scene at the border of Egypt and Palestine. At dawn British guards see a grey bus racing wildly over the desert...
...John Thornton Kirkland fellowship to Howard F. Cline, of Indianapolis...
...Town is also a poem in play form. Thornton Wilder wrote it in the only poetic idiom which Americans always understand-simple U. S. speech in which emotion supercharges the common forms. He wrote it out of the poetic materials to which Americans always respond-the casual routine of their lives amid the sights, sounds, smells of the American earth. Because Sam Wood, who directed Goodbye, Mr. Chips, and a splendid cast have transferred Our Town, the play, to film without disturbing this basic poetry, Our Town, the picture, is a cinema event...
...Thornton F. Bradshaw...